How Many Exoplanets Have Been Discovered?
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NASA has confirmed the existence of a massive 5,502 planets beyond our own solar system
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All of the planets in our solar system orbit around the Sun. Planets that orbit around other stars are called exoplanets
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Scientists discovered six new exoplanets in September last year
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The first exoplanets were confirmed when scientists detected twin planets Poltergeist and Phobetor orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12
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There are a number of both space and ground-based instruments and observatories that scientists have used to detect and study exoplanets
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NASA has said that these exoplanets include small, rocky worlds like Earth and "super Earths" which are larger than our own
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There are also gas giants several larger than Jupiter and "mini-Neptunes."
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Some of these planets orbit two stars at once and others stubbornly revolve around the collapsed remnants of dead stars
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One way to search for exoplanets is to look for "wobbly" stars
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